HURD, Richard M.

A History of Yale Athletics 1840-1888. Giving every contest with Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Wesleyan and others in rowing, foot ball, base ball, track athletics, tennis...with illustrations and complete tables of statistics

New Haven: R.M. Hurd, (1888). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover with printed paper title label to front board; frontispiece; one inserted photographic plate (halftone) not reckoned in pagination; 124;(12)pp; illus. Mild external wear, with a few faint spots to cloth, internally fresh, clean, and tight - solidly Very Good. With pencil ownership signature of Frederick S. Chase, Yale Class of 1887.

Quite nice copy of this desirable history, with much on the early development of baseball in the Ivy Leagues beginning with the first recorded game on the Yale campus in 1859. The ownership signature is that of Frederick Starkweather Chase (1862-1947), of the prominent Waterbury (Connecticut) manufacturing family; Chase makes several appearances within the text, having placed among the top finishers in the Intercollegiate Lawn-Tennis Tournament for 1885, 1886, and 1887.

Price: $450.00

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